Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Test/burn-in/conditioning CDs

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In 1995, you would have had to pry Brenda away from playing Playstation (and other video game consoles) with her brother, boyfriend, and other pals. In 1998, the Thiel CS1.5 was a poor match for my 15x15 occupied room. At the same time, I brought in the Totem Model 1 Signature (in essence, the Sky has replaced the M1S). That led to an excess of interconnects. It was, as many Inamtes still recall, my own Sony Playstation, which then received $2000 interconnects from Tara Labs and XLO. And yes, we did use test CDs, in video game consoles, which could play them.

In 1989/90, I had the Stereophile Test CD. It was depressing, because the mass market gear we had at the time could not preserve or decode a soundstage. In 1992 or so, I lent this CD out (to whom, I don't recall), and never got it back!



These are the "specialty" CDs I still have.
Ayre IBE: somebody (don't recall whom) gave this to me, in 2004 or so.
Granite Audio: has a lower-level signal, so that you feed a CD player's output to your phonostage. This is a nice tool, but we prefer Hagerman's burn-in circuit board even better.
PAD: got this on that 1996 trip to Honolulu.
Sheffield/XLO: I think I bought this from SF's Ultimate Sound in 1994.
XLO/Reference Recordings: Also got this from Ultimate Sound, probably 1996.


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